Christopher Donaldson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Donaldson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaldson |
| SIGNATURE | DONALDSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2924-3001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Muffins, and not the promise of muffins
This is an afterword for the Digital Forum ‘Where Next for Digital Victorian Studies?’
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Sublime
This chapter models the use of digital humanities methodologies to study semantic history. Corpus analysis and geographical information systems techniques are applied to trace the use of the word ‘sublime’ in a large collection of digitized literary works from the final decade of the nineteenth century. This collection, which comprises nearly 10,000 texts from the 1890s, was extracted from the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century Books Corpus. Th…
Re-forming the Transnational Victorian Archive
This is an introduction to a special instalment of the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum. The instalment focuses on how re-forming the materials of three very different kinds of nineteenth-century reform work (penal correction, protest literature, and the development of women’s education) into digital databases and archives allows an examination of that work at new scales
Digital Maps and Mapping in Victorian Studies
This Digital Forum for the Journal of Victorian Culture features contributions from three research projects that are applying digital resources and methods to create maps to organise, visualise and analyse historical sources. The first contribution, ‘Maps of a Nation?’, comes from an interdisciplinary investigative team at the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library. The second contribution comes from the Mapping Victorian Literary Sociabil…
Authorial effects at work in the English Lakes
This article forms part of a special issue entitled 'Placing the Author in Ecologies of Literary Tourism'. The article examines one of the more curious beauty spots on the literary tourist’s map of the English Lake District: Tarn Hows, near Coniston. This artificial lake, with its islands and ornamental groves, is one of the most iconic properties in the Lake District, and tracing its development as a visitor attraction reveals how particular wri…
Digital Literacy
Showing one's workings is, it turns out, a Victorian practice. Querying the OED Online proves the phrase was in circulation as early as the 1870s, and searching Google Books affirms that it was used in the puzzle pages of Annie Besant's Our Corner in the following decade. 'You should show your working of arithmetical puzzles', warns the Our Corner puzzler, 'or you lose many marks' . 1 Many of us will have first encountered some variation of this …
Digital Heritage
This short article introduces a new instalment of the Digital Forum adopts a curatorial focus in order to consider the roles played by digital resources in the creation and management of collections of relevance for the study of the Victorian age. Featuring contributions from Douglas Dodds (of the V&A), Peter Findlay (of JISC) and Jenny Mitcham (of the Borthwick Institute), this instalment of the DF explores issues ranging from the digitisation o…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Workflow
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Changing Perceptions of Nature
Geographical Text Analysis
Underpinning these endeavours is a conviction in the value not only of geographical thinking, but also – more specifically – of maps as ‘analytical tools’ for displaying information derived from literary works in ways that ‘bring to light relations that would otherwise remain hidden’ (Moretti, Atlas 3). Maps, in so many words, are valuable because they can serve the literary scholar both as instruments for generating abstract representations of p…
Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the fie…
Digital Pedagogy in and beyond the Classroom
Five years have passed since the Digital Forum featured its first installment dedicated to digital pedagogy.At that time, James Mussell reflected on how 'digital resources' were transforming teaching and learning across 'the various disciplines that constitute nineteenthcentury studies'-both by broadening access to primary materials and by enabling the development of new projects and methodologies. 1 Today, the integration of digital resources in…
The Future of Academic Journals
Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ijhac.2015.0135
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’
Not least among many items of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks is the account of the trip the author took to the Lake District during the summer of 1855. Like most Victorian tourists travelling to the Lakes from Liverpool (where Hawthorne was stationed as the American consul), he and his family came to the region largely to recover their health. Two years of living in Liverpool, with its coal dust and damp, had taken their toll…
XIIILiterature 1780–1830
This chapter has 4 sections: 1. General; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Peter Newbon; section 2 is by Eliza O'Brien; section 3 is by Christopher Donaldson and James Robert Wood; section 4 is by Chrisy Dennis
The Making of a Cultural Landscape
This collection offers a detailed account of the role that tourism has played in shaping the heritage, culture and identity of the Lake District and, more broadly, Cumbria over the past 260 years. Varied in its contents and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book provides valuable commentaries not only on the social, environmental and economic history of the Lake District, but also on the conservation, marketing, and land-management strategie…
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’
Not least among many items of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks is the account of the trip the author took to the Lake District during the summer of 1855. Like most Victorian tourists travelling to the Lakes from Liverpool (where Hawthorne was stationed as the American consul), he and his family came to the region largely to recover their health. Two years of living in Liverpool, with its coal dust and damp, had taken their toll…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Digital Heritage
This short article introduces a new instalment of the Digital Forum adopts a curatorial focus in order to consider the roles played by digital resources in the creation and management of collections of relevance for the study of the Victorian age. Featuring contributions from Douglas Dodds (of the V&A), Peter Findlay (of JISC) and Jenny Mitcham (of the Borthwick Institute), this instalment of the DF explores issues ranging from the digitisation o…
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ijhac.2015.0135
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’
Not least among many items of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks is the account of the trip the author took to the Lake District during the summer of 1855. Like most Victorian tourists travelling to the Lakes from Liverpool (where Hawthorne was stationed as the American consul), he and his family came to the region largely to recover their health. Two years of living in Liverpool, with its coal dust and damp, had taken their toll…
XIIILiterature 1780–1830
This chapter has 4 sections: 1. General; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Peter Newbon; section 2 is by Eliza O'Brien; section 3 is by Christopher Donaldson and James Robert Wood; section 4 is by Chrisy Dennis
The Making of a Cultural Landscape
This collection offers a detailed account of the role that tourism has played in shaping the heritage, culture and identity of the Lake District and, more broadly, Cumbria over the past 260 years. Varied in its contents and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book provides valuable commentaries not only on the social, environmental and economic history of the Lake District, but also on the conservation, marketing, and land-management strategie…
Changing Perceptions of Nature
Geographical Text Analysis
Underpinning these endeavours is a conviction in the value not only of geographical thinking, but also – more specifically – of maps as ‘analytical tools’ for displaying information derived from literary works in ways that ‘bring to light relations that would otherwise remain hidden’ (Moretti, Atlas 3). Maps, in so many words, are valuable because they can serve the literary scholar both as instruments for generating abstract representations of p…
Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the fie…
Digital Pedagogy in and beyond the Classroom
Five years have passed since the Digital Forum featured its first installment dedicated to digital pedagogy.At that time, James Mussell reflected on how 'digital resources' were transforming teaching and learning across 'the various disciplines that constitute nineteenthcentury studies'-both by broadening access to primary materials and by enabling the development of new projects and methodologies. 1 Today, the integration of digital resources in…
The Future of Academic Journals
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Workflow
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Digital Heritage
This short article introduces a new instalment of the Digital Forum adopts a curatorial focus in order to consider the roles played by digital resources in the creation and management of collections of relevance for the study of the Victorian age. Featuring contributions from Douglas Dodds (of the V&A), Peter Findlay (of JISC) and Jenny Mitcham (of the Borthwick Institute), this instalment of the DF explores issues ranging from the digitisation o…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Digital Literacy
Showing one's workings is, it turns out, a Victorian practice. Querying the OED Online proves the phrase was in circulation as early as the 1870s, and searching Google Books affirms that it was used in the puzzle pages of Annie Besant's Our Corner in the following decade. 'You should show your working of arithmetical puzzles', warns the Our Corner puzzler, 'or you lose many marks' . 1 Many of us will have first encountered some variation of this …
Authorial effects at work in the English Lakes
This article forms part of a special issue entitled 'Placing the Author in Ecologies of Literary Tourism'. The article examines one of the more curious beauty spots on the literary tourist’s map of the English Lake District: Tarn Hows, near Coniston. This artificial lake, with its islands and ornamental groves, is one of the most iconic properties in the Lake District, and tracing its development as a visitor attraction reveals how particular wri…
Digital Maps and Mapping in Victorian Studies
This Digital Forum for the Journal of Victorian Culture features contributions from three research projects that are applying digital resources and methods to create maps to organise, visualise and analyse historical sources. The first contribution, ‘Maps of a Nation?’, comes from an interdisciplinary investigative team at the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library. The second contribution comes from the Mapping Victorian Literary Sociabil…
Re-forming the Transnational Victorian Archive
This is an introduction to a special instalment of the Journal of Victorian Culture's Digital Forum. The instalment focuses on how re-forming the materials of three very different kinds of nineteenth-century reform work (penal correction, protest literature, and the development of women’s education) into digital databases and archives allows an examination of that work at new scales
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Sublime
This chapter models the use of digital humanities methodologies to study semantic history. Corpus analysis and geographical information systems techniques are applied to trace the use of the word ‘sublime’ in a large collection of digitized literary works from the final decade of the nineteenth century. This collection, which comprises nearly 10,000 texts from the 1890s, was extracted from the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century Books Corpus. Th…
Muffins, and not the promise of muffins
This is an afterword for the Digital Forum ‘Where Next for Digital Victorian Studies?’
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